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THE COLLEGIAN
"For A Better Penn State"
Established 1940. Successor to the Penn State Collegian,
established 1904. and the Free Lance, established 1887.
Published every Friday morning during the regular Col
lege, year , by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsyl
vania State Collge. Entered as second class matter .July 5,
1934, at the State College. Pa.. Post Office under the act
f March 8, 1879.
Subscripttions by mail only at $1 a semester.
Editor-in-Chief Business Manager
Victor Danilov Evelyn Wasson
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Friday, March 30, 1945
Victors Take Over Duties
Within a few days the newly elected class pre
sidents will take their places on All-College Cab
inet. The election is over and now the victorious
candidates will assume their responsibilities to the
students.
The class officers will meet in the near future
to formulate plans for the remainder of the sem
ester. In the meantime, it is the duty of every
student to suggest some sort of constructive pro
gram to his or her representative.
During the oast election campaign numerous
pledges were made by the candidates. Some of the
promises will be kept, while others will be ignor
ed. However, there are a few points in the two
parties' platforms which must not be pushed aside.
Both the Key and Nittany cliques agree that
school spirit must be restored to its former sta
tus. Each has its own program to bring back
"Penn State spirit." Perhaps a combination of
both programs would be more effective. It will
be up to Cabinet to make the decision.
Another important item is cooperation with the
ex-servicemen who are now students at the Coll
ege. Cabinet must make the former G. I. Joe's
feel as though they are part of the college. The
men who have returned from the battlefronts
should not be classified and distinguished froxii
the regular students:
Although neither platform mentioned the revis
ion of the All-College Cabinet Constitution, cir
cumstances have proven that changes are neces
sary. For several months now Cabinet has been
Considering the move, but nothing has been•done
as yet. It will be the responsibility of the new
Cabinet to investigate the prolblems and discover
what changes are necessary.
At this week's Cabinet meeteing a proposal to
extend voting nower to WSGA and the Judicial
committee was introduced. However, the matter
was also referred to the new Cabinet.
These are just a few of the problems which the
newly elected class officers will have to decide
upon as soon as they take office.
A Light in the Dark
In liberated countries all over the world uni
versities are reopening today the lights of learn
ing are coming on again to lead the people in a
world of darkness.
The 689-year-old University of Paris reopened
its doors to more than 3000 students in January in
a city that has become thee tuberculosis capital of
the world. The University of Caen went up in
flames on July 7, 1944, but its students immed
iately organized a mutual self-help in a city where
40,000 are homeless. •
The University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia has
reopened for wounded students and for badly
needed doctors and technicians. The looted Uni
versity of Pisa is operating again, while the Uni
versity of Cracow will start again shortly.
The 143 colleges and universities in China
have enrolled 73,000 students. Although most of
them are in temporary locations, badly housed,
and poorly equipped, they are managing to contin
ue.
The world is beginning to awake from• its
deep slumber. The lights of education are com
ing on again.
t,)uis. Bell
___Fay E. Yonne .
Helen V. Hatton
Gloria Nerenberg
____Mary Louise Davey,
Penn Statements
Things were really hot at the Student Tribunal meeting this week.'
In the longest meeting for semesters, Chairman Guy Newton sentenc
ed 16 freshmen for violating custom regulations.
Twenty first-semester freshmen appeared before the men's judi
cial body during the two hour meeting and only four managed to
escape "the curse of the batmen.'
Tribunal's action followed a
students during the first month of
College study. Judicial, Tribunal's
kid sister, is expected to take
similar action in the near future.
The two groups are determined to
check the spread of frosh cus
tom violations.
All this week Tribunal has
been staging mass meetings and
song-fests in front of Old Main
in an effort to make freshmen
realize the necessity of continuing
customs and their connection with
the traditions of Penn State.
The lack of school spirit has
been growing with each semes
ter. The move by Tribunal, is in
tended as the first step in bring
ing back "Penn State Spirit." •
Last week only five. freshmen
were reported to Tribunal for
breaking customs: Four of these
men were convicted and sentenc
ed, while many other violators
were not even reported to Tribu
nal.
Old Mania
Cupid has been working fiend-
N.hly since the first sign of spring
....Ruth Anders, KD prexy,
wears a diamond from Ens. Caleb
Pennock .... AEPhi alum Edie
Bernstein is engaged to Ray
Brandstein....Joe Wilson, a Kap
pa Alpha doing research work
here, is now engaged to Dottie
Thomas, a KD alum ....Joyce
Greenberg is the fiancee of Ger
ald Goodman....
Hear Lou Wetzel, delta gam
pledgie, is pinned to Russ Devoe,
phi gam....Phi ep prexy Stan
Ziff has handed his jewelry to
Girlie Steinmetz.... Kappa Helen
Fiedler wears Jack Strickland's
phi kappa sig pin....SPA Howe
Frith and Marion Hempt....
Three SDT's are- changing their
names.... Lee Berlin is marrying
Kenny Sivitz, ex-iphi sig pres. in
April.... Arlene Crystal was mar
ried this week to Capt. Gabe Pic
ar....And Adele Eskind and Pvt.
Arnie Feldman were married
Sunday....
The Kappas and the Marines
'are at it again.... Nan Charles,
B'argie Smedley' and Janie Wat-.
son went to Washington to see
their gyrenes .... Respectively
they are Pvts. Bruce Allen; Jack
George and Hal Paige.... Three
other former V-12 Marines came
Faculty Limelight
Prof. Joseph F. O'Brien coached the men debaters to 22 wins out
of 25 meets this year to set a new record. At the Faculty Luncheon
Monday, Misses Gladys iCranmer, Katherine Stokes, and Evelyn Hensel
will discuss the various functions o
son, associate professor of petrol
eum and natural gas engineering,
will speak to • Sigma Pi Sigma,
physics' honorary, Tuesday eve
ning.
In a recent Defense Council '
News, the names of several faculty
members were mentioned—Dr.
Warren B. Mack as executive sec
retary of the State Victory Gar
den committee, Dr. Pauline Beery
Mack as director of Nutrition for
War Services, and Dean A. R.
Warnock as chairman of the Ad
visory committee. . . . In speaking
to contestants for Westing
house scholarships, Dr. Warren
Mack declared that only one
American in 1;000 is really well
fed.
'Dr. Bruce V. Moore, head of the
department of education and psy
chology, urges adults to prepare
children for the return 'of maimed
war veterans with an honest,
Fr - mmTwwwva
By VICTOR DANILOV
series of violations by freshmen
However, as Chairman Newton
pointed out, freshmen got away
with murder during the first few
weeks of college. Violations reach
ed a climax last week when hat
men staged a concentrated drive
which netted 20 names for Tri
bunal this past Wednesday.
As a result there , will be sand
wich signs all over campus be
ginning today-15 signs to be ex
act. In addition, Lawrence Mar
cella will • join Joe Vispi, Jim
Francis, and Herb Borteck of oth
er semesters as "the boy with the
feminine appearance" dolled up in
a dress with all the accompany_
ing decorations. -
Tribunal has cracked the whip
and Judicial intends to follow suit
very shortly.
To quote an old upperclass
saying, "customs must be obeyed."
Ain't that kerrect, Newth?
CARASTRO
By NANCY
visiting Kappas.... Lt. Bill McKee
to see Dottie Morrow.... Lt. Kurt
Muller to see Hattie Leydon....
Lt. Bill Christmas to see Lee
Yeagley...
Chief Petty Officer Ski Wruv
lewski visited Gamma phi Ginny
Tennyson... .And another CPO,
Bill Coppock, tame to see another
gamma phi, Nancy Geisse..
ChiO Lois Lunn went to Philly to
see _fiance Bob Cowan....Alpha
delt Ginny Roe, went to Wash
ington to see med student Edwin
Wood.... Ens. Jack Graham, for
mer V-12er, came to see DG Del
bert Weiner....
Sad note ....Cynthia Johnson
End delta sig Guy Newton are
no longer pihned....Neither are
Evie', Eraeg and sigma nu Ray
80y1e....
A!EPhi Elaine Dinowitz wears
the pin of Marine Pvt. Luke Gross.
former V-12er . .
Sam Huntington, a sergeant at
Manlius Military School, was up
visiting Sibyl Twinning . .• . DG
Jean • Sickel went down to Phil
thydelphia to see Coast Guards
man Allen Williams . . .
Easter Ball in Rec Hall coin-.
ing up tomorrow .... Imported
band t00....N0 room to print
names of twosomes....MANlAC.
By WOODENE BELL
the College library. Prof. S. J. Pir-
straight-forward explanation . . .
Driving a jeep in the Army will
not make an ex-GI a good drives
on America's highways, according
to Amos E. Neyhart, administra
tive head of the Institute of Public
Safety.
Placement Service; under the
direction of George N. P. Leetch,
has issued a folder for employers,
explaining the curricula of Col
lege. . • . The Home Economics
News Letter came out in printed
form this spring, with Miss Ruth
E.Graham, professor of home eco
nomics, listed as editor. . . Dr.
Stuart A. Mahuran, assistant pro
fessor of journalism, puts out a
School Press EXchange for the
state's high school papers. . .
Miss Rose Cologne, special con..
sultant of adult education, con
ducted a workshop for Lancaster
Women's Clubs.
A Lean And Hungry Look
It was a lovely day in the early .spring,of
,1945
when the Easter bunny came hopping up the road
to Penn State. The unusually warm weather had
made the bunny behind schedule so that his long
pink ears flapped wildly in the breeze as he rac
ed along College avenue.
A strange sight met the bunny's eyes as he skid
ded to a stop in front of the Corner. Room. The
unusual beanery was bedecked with posters, each
listing the virtues of several students. An elec
tion! The bunny was overjoyed. He loved elections.
InSide the Corner all was abuzz. The bunny
jumped upon a stool and ordered a carrot sundae
from a pretty waitress. Then he hopped under a
table occupied by several students whose per
petually smiling faces and gnawed finger nails
identified them as candidates. He was drinking
In the inside story about the election when a hand
swollen from slapping backs seized him by the
scruff of the neck.
Dropping the bunny on the table amid coke
glasses and lists of voters„the nolitician fastened
his smile back into "place. `liave you voted yet?"
he asked.
"'No," the bunny said.
There was a sudden flash of movement. The
bunny found himself sandwiched in between two
gunmen in a convertible speeding up, the mall to
Old Main.
The election committee clerk fixed ;baleful eyes
'on the rabbit. "Where's your matriculation card?"
he snarled politely.
"I can identify him," one of the bunny's new
friends said surreptitiously dropping a dollar bill.
The clerk handed over a ballot which the bunny
marked with the expert assistance of a clique
chairman, two candidates and several impartial
party workers. Then somebody kicked him out
through the door.
Undismayed, the little white rabbit trudged a-.
long with the crowd as it went to the counting
of the ballots. This part of the election proceed
ed without a hitch. First the clique chairmen
beat the election committee• into senselessness,
then they proceeded to find a disinterested person
to count the ballots.
After a little thought they decided the brother
of one of the candidates would be the ideal man.
From then on in everything was in the bag. The
counting was facilitated by the simple process of
burning all the ballots and imagining the returns.
Outside the bunny met a disconsolate group of
politicos whose candidates had lost. "I've had
some experience with bunny elections," he said,
"and when the vote appears to be going against us,
we merely go out and make some more voters."
I know that a lot• of people may deplore the tone
of this story. No offense is• meant since -the elec
tion was fairly fought and.gentlemanly conducted.
The column was written by an April Fool.
Ship Ahoy
Here it is again, the column with the nauseous
nautical trend.
Pictures of Bill Cramer and Joe Bondi re
cently graced the pages of the Pittsburgh Press to
the delight of their mothers, fathers, and Comman
der 'Wisner . ...Tom Einlbecker and Bob Gernand
have struck without success for guidon bearers• in
the first battalion . . . "Salty" Richmond is of the
opinion that it takes a good man to swindle a blind
date with a coed like Lois Cleaver.
A/S Foote has severed relations with the Pa
cific Coast and is looking for another Dumb° in
the hills of Pennsylvania . Charles "The Lover"
Grube was seen giving Madame LaZonga six les
sons a week ago Sunday at the , Locust Lane
Lodge . . . Also at the Lodge were such renowned
Casanovas as Max Hannum, Jack Espich, Dick
Light, and Bill Nugent. •
It is rumored that Aldo Serafini and "Sam"
Samppala are going into business making chairs
for the standing army . . . The gentlemen who
shipped to Princeton at the end of last semester re
port that all is not particularly well with them.
They rot in darkness while the rest of their class ,
goes on to gold braid . . . George "The Muscle"
Meeker now plays both lacrosse and his trumpet
with equal ability. Does this prove anything? •
Future Midshipman Bob Rust is already bal
ancing his first year's budget of $24 . . , Hank
Bennett, manufacturing magnate of pot-bellied
stoves, returned from semester leave to find he
was a single man again. It seems that Betty• got
married. ' ' ' —Keckor and. Reid
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1945
-CASSIUS